Ray, These are all fabulous, but I love, love, LOVE the bat! What a great shot and lucky you for the opportunity! That diving owl is once-in-lifetime, or at least it would be for me.

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thanks very much Bolts, this bat is a Giant Fruit Bat, in one of the last know colonies in the Philippines. I have several other images of these cool monsters, I should really go back and edit a bunch of them.

Wonderful shots, Ray. And #2,3 are my favotites. But how did
you get #2? This is an awesome shot!

Thanks for sharing.

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It was a cool deal Hide, the bird was perch in a tree, and I was about 40 feet from the base of the tree., I could see it was hunting intensly, and it began to lean forward, preparing to dive straight down after a mouse it had seen., so I lifted the camera, and once it leaped, I just tracked it, and held the shutter button down.

I was especially happy when I relized a week later that I was the only one of about 10 photogs that were there who got a shot.

Stunning shots Ray, the second shot in incredible I am wondering how you captured that one, looks like you were shooting straight up. Keep on digging.

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thanks Warren., that bird was hunting in front of about 8 photographers, we were all standing on the sideroad, it was looking straight down at lunch, and I anticipated the dive, and kept my camera on the bird with the sutter button held down!

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